The new series for readers who enjoy Sharpe, Flashman or The Three Musketeers - discover the second book in the King's Germans series which will take you from 1793 and the war in Flanders, to the Field of Waterloo in 1815.

As quickly as they had come, the Foot Guards had gone.

Krombach turned to salvage his musket and back-pack when he saw Sergeant-Major Winckler looking most agitated. Behind him twenty or more guardsmen, the personal staff of the Duke of York’s headquarters were tumbling out of the building, followed by a junior officer, in the process of trying to clip a sword belt around his waist while trying not to trip down the small series of steps that led from the chateau.

“Every man you can find, Sergeant-Major!” the officer whined.

Krombach looked to see the Winckler blow out his cheeks in mild disbelief.

“Grab your musket, Krombach. General Lake’s orders: every man, including you!” Winckler paced past. “...And me…What a bloody waste this could be!”

May 1793: The French border.

Valenciennes, Paris then home! Every common soldier knows the popular refrain so why can’t the commanders see sense? The protracted siege of Valenciennes exposes the mistrust between the allies. National interests triumph over military logic. The King’s Germans find themselves marching north to the coast, not east to Paris. Dunkirk has become a royal prize, an open secret smuggled to the French, who set a trap for the Duke of York’s army. Lieutenant Erich von Bomm and Captain Werner Brandt find themselves in the thick of the action as the 14th Nationals, the Black Lions, seek their revenge. In the chaos of battle, Sebastian Krombach, working alongside Major Trevethan, the engineer tasked with capturing Dunkirk, must make a dreadful choice: to guide a battalion of Foot Guards to safety across the Great Moor or carry a message that might save the life of a friend. The King’s Germans and the Black Lions do battle to determine who shall be crowned the King of Dunkirk.

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